Stock of the Week Under $10: Heritage Global (HGBL)
The POWR Ratings points the way once again to a stellar opportunity for a stock under $10 with tremendous upside potential. This time around its with Heritage Global (HGBL). Read…
Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks
AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.
Building ethical thinking into technology
In his essay introducing this year’s class of Innovators Under 35, Andrew Ng argues that AI is a general-purpose technology, much like electricity, that will be built into everything else. Indeed, it’s true, and it’s already happening. AI is rapidly becoming a tool that powers all sorts of other tools, a technological underpinning for a…
She was a semi-pro Go player but learned that biology is even harder
Julia Joung is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35. When an AI beat one of the world’s best Go players in 2017, Julia Joung felt relief. She’d spent her childhood in Taiwan mastering the ancient game and once aspired to become a professional player, representing her country. “I felt like part of…
2023 Innovator of the Year: As AI models are released into the wild, Sharon Li wants to ensure they’re safe
Sharon Li is MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovator of the Year. Meet the rest of this year’s Innovators Under 35. As we launch AI systems from the lab into the real world, we need to be prepared for these systems to break in surprising and catastrophic ways. It’s already happening. Last year, for example, a…
AuthMind raises seed funding for its identity SecOps platform
AuthMind, a Maryland-based startup that aims to help businesses protect themselves from identity-related cyberattacks, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million seed round led by Ballistic Ventures, with strategic participation from IBM Ventures. The company was co-founded by CEO Shlomi Yanai and CTO Ankur Panchbudhe. Both previously founded (and sold) a number of […]
Mighty Buildings raises $52M to build 3D-printed prefab homes
Mighty Buildings, a startup building tech for prefabricated, ostensibly environmentally-friendly homes, today announced that it raised $52 million in a funding round co-led by Waed Ventures and Bold Capital with participation by Khosla Ventures. The new tranche, which sources familiar with the matter say values the startup at between $300 million and $350 million, brings […]
This startup plans to power a tugboat with ammonia later this year
Young Suk Jo is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35. Transportation is one of the world’s most polluting industries, accounting for roughly 15% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Electric vehicles will make a dent in those emissions in the coming decades, but batteries can’t hold enough energy to power vehicles used in other…
Andrew Ng: How to be an innovator
This essay is part of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35 package. Meet this year’s honorees. Innovation is a powerful engine for uplifting society and fueling economic growth. Antibiotics, electric lights, refrigerators, airplanes, smartphones—we have these things because innovators created something that didn’t exist before. MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 list celebrates individuals who have…
Robots that learn as they fail could unlock a new era of AI
Lerrel Pinto is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35. Asked to explain his work, Lerrel Pinto, 31, likes to shoot back another question: When did you last see a cool robot in your home? The answer typically depends on whether the person asking owns a robot vacuum cleaner: yesterday or never. Pinto’s…
How software that tracks covid variants could protect us against future outbreaks
Yatish Turakhia is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35. When covid-19 started spreading in early 2020, scientists quickly realized that tracking how the virus was mutating would be essential for public health as new strains emerged that put people at greater risk. Yatish Turakhia, then a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz’s Genomics…